A Philosophy of Sport by Steven Connor
Providing a new philosophical understanding of sport, which defines what sport essentially is and means by setting out a complete grammar of sport, treating in turn its essential elements, A Philosophy of Sport will inform, surprise and delight those who have always thought sport should be taken more seriously.
'Connor muses interestingly on the football pitch as a palimpsest of geometries; on why to be in the lead is to have an advantage in time, "to have wound the clock forward"; on the extreme demands made on the too-easily-mocked sports commentator; on sprinting as "the enraptured attempt to escape the capturing drag of mass"; on the utility of magical thinking in the "follow-through" of bat or club; and on how one does things with balls' - The Guardian
Steven Connor is Professor of English and Director of Research at the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College London. He is the author of eighteen books, most recently The Madness of Knowledge: On Wisdom, Ignorance and Fantasies of Knowing (2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781861898692 |
| ISBN 10 | 186189869X |
| Title | A Philosophy of Sport |
| Author | Steven Connor |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2011-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 232 |
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